A PRIVATE BURIAL IS BEING HELD WEDNESDAY FOR SLAIN ALBUQUERQUE POLICE OFFICER DANIEL WEBSTER. BUT THERE WAS A HUGE TURNOUT AT THE ALBUQUERQUE CONVENTION CENTER FOR OFFICER WEBSTER’S MEMORIAL SERVICE ON TUESDAY. THOUSANDS SHOWED THEIR SUPPORT FOR OFFICER WEBSTER AND APD EITHER BY ATTENDING THE SERVICE OR LINING THE STREETS.
AMONG THOSE SPEAKING, THE FALLEN OFFICER’S WIDOW MICHELLE, A BERNALILLO COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPUTY. SHE SAID HER HUSBAND THOUGHT HE WAS BATMAN … WHICH SHE SAYS HE WAS, IN A WAY, BECAUSE HE LOVED PROTECTING PEOPLE. MICHELLE ALSO SAID DAN LOVED LIFE, HIS HARLEY AND CIVIL WAR HISTORY…AND HAD A GREEN THUMB.
OFFICER WEBSTER WAS SHOT DURING A TRAFFIC STOP ON OCTOBER 21ST, AND DIED A WEEK LATER. THE ACCUSED GUNMAN IS IN FEDERAL CUSTODY.
